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Jacob Heilbrunn

2 articles 1999–2000

Jacob Heilbrunn is a journalist, author, and editor of The National Interest. A prominent commentator on foreign policy and intellectual history, he contributed pieces to The Weekly Standard in 1999–2000 examining ideological movements and political extremism.

Stalin's New American Apologists

March 13, 2000 · Magazine, Jacob Heilbrunn

WHEN THE SOVIET UNION went under, Russian historians and citizens' movements began to confront Communist crimes. Mass graves were unearthed. New documents pointing to Lenin's culpability were uncovered. In Western Europe, as well, the recent publication of The Black Book of Communism and Francois…